The Indianapolis Colts Are Already Recruiting St. Louis Rams Fans

With the news of the Rams relocating to Inglewood, California beginning to surface late Tuesday evening, the Chargers were awarded the option to join their counterparts per a vote by the league’s owners.

The new stadium will be built on the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, an area in southwestern Los Angeles. The NFL’s resolution that was approved by the owners gives the Raiders $100 million to put toward a new stadium in Oakland (just as the Chargers would have $100 million for a new stadium in San Diego).

There is no time to wait in beginning to brand the new Los Angeles Rams franchise, which must, to an extent, be set apart from the St. Louis club and positioned to excite fans in a new market, despite a dismal 7-9 record in 2015.

With the Rams and possibly Chargers headed to Los Angeles, the Raiders are forced to look at other options.

“That’d be fun. We won’t quite feel at home because we’ll be in the visitor’s locker room, but that’ll be fun to be there”, said Carroll.

“It’s disappointing” to see the Rams go, Keller said, “but good riddance to Kroenke”.

League owners voted Tuesday to allow the Rams to move to Los Angeles starting next season.

Ultimately, it begs the question of whether or not Kroenke was ever truly serious about staying in St. Louis.

“I will be working over the next several weeks to explore the options that we have now created for ourselves to determine the best path forward for the Chargers”, Chargers owner Dean Spanos said in a statement Tuesday.

Kroenke believed that detailed renderings of the sleek, low-slung stadium project and surrounding mixed-use development helped sway owners in Houston to overwhelmingly support his vision over a rival stadium project in Carson.

The Raiders could end up in L.A. if the Chargers don’t exercise theirs, but the Silver and Black got the short end of the stick.

“It’s a risk that [Kroenke] can absorb”, said Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist, who has written several books about the economic impact of stadiums and sports.

Kroenke is evoking similar emotions of abandonment felt in Brooklyn when Walter O’Malley moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957, in Baltimore when Robert Irsay spirited the Colts to Indianapolis under cover of darkness in 1984, and in Cleveland when Art Modell took the Browns to Baltimore before the 1996 season.

The Rams aren’t exactly a cultural institution in St. Louis. For one, he has to notify the city of San Diego between February 1 and May 1 whether he will renew the team’s year-to-year lease. The new facility is not expected to be completed until 2019.

The main reason for a drastic departure from existing features denoting the Rams would be to show the general public that this team is unlike what it was in the recent past. The Rams recommended more than $700 million in renovations, and the city and state countered with the $1.1 billion public/private stadium proposal that the National Football League turned down.

In Stan’s newly found desire to talk he had this to say, “I grew up in Missouri, and there’s a lot of wonderful people in St. Louis and Missouri”.

It might be argued that St. Louis is merely receiving karmic payback for poaching the Rams from Los Angeles two decades ago. If he absolutely had to pick a basketball team it would be the Knicks, but he’d gladly trade them for just one championship for any of his other three teams. Fans who turn their back on a team as soon as it is fashionable to do so.

By Wednesday, large banners featuring Rams players were still up outside dome and on the interior rafters.